I'll leave my disagreements (and there are some) with this article for another day, and highlight the important new concepts being explored in this paper presented last week in Alberta. First is the concept of the learning network itself, according to the author, "a network of persons who create, share, support and study learning resources ('units of learning') in a specific knowledge domain." Second, it is important to note how major features of the model differ from the traditional approach - "putting the learner centre-stage means that the learner and not a teacher or an institute is responsible for his/her own learning processes", "learners are typically engaged in a variety of formal and informal learning activities", and "the participants in an LN in any given field have different levels of competence, varying from novice to top expert, and from practitioner to researcher and developer." (Note that I used the handle to link to this item - this is an experiment - I don't really believe they'll be more persistent than URLs, but we'll see).
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